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Most impact late game- AP mid

So I'm working on expanding my arsenal of champs, and I'm mainly interested in AP mid casters that have the most impact late game. So far I'm a big fan of Morgana and Cass, but both are quite commonly banned in ranked play or draft mode. I can dominate my lane as Ziggs, but unless I snowball out of control I find his late game presence to be a bit lacking.

Do you want to instagib single/multiple targets or does your definition of impact include things like AOE CC, tankyness or utility skills?

If you use the purest sense of impact (turning teamfights, utility, aoe, decent dmg, etc) then I'd include some people like Morde and Karma. If they do ok in their lanes then they can simply ruin the enemy's chances in an 'even' teamfight. In a more realistic sense I'd probably bring up Morgana, Annie and Ryze. They all bring a nice balance of strong single/multi target damage, CC and general utility (Morg can basically ruin the chances of killing your AD carry thanks to black shield, can split up entire enemy team (flash ult hourglass). Annie brings strong burst and INSANE CC (if placed well and positioned properly). A good tib ult makes an entire team fight essentially over. 3+ of their team stunned for 1.5 seconds while being bursted down 1/2 their health is a rather easy win.

Ahri, Veigar and LeBlanc are hard champions to master, so don't go playing like if it was easy. Unless you know what you're doing, of course. (except Karthus, don't play him much, so I can't say)

Leblanc has one of the worst end-games of any viable ap-mid, I'm pretty sure... And also has 0 team fight utility. I do like Veigar, though he definitely wouldn't be listed as "hard to master" in my book.